PARTNERSHIP
Accounting Students Receive Support from Audit Firm
Under its Workforce Readiness programme, Deloitte will create a leadership track for a select number of top performing students from across all faculties as the programme aims to equip high performers with digital, financial and business strategy skills, as well as soft skills such as creativity, complex problem solving, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. Students will be paired with staff and clients in Deloitte’s network for one-on-one coaching, job shadowing, and career conversations with leaders or entrepreneurs. There will also be group training sessions. Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Cave Hill Campus Professor Clive Landis in welcoming the initiative said, “The new partnership with Deloitte is very pleasing to me, as it fits the campus’s strategy to engage more deeply with the business community in Barbados for mutual benefit. Our students will benefit from Deloitte’s Workforce Readiness programme to develop soft skills and leadership skills through hands-on experiences at Deloitte, a globally respected business with diverse staff and clients. The MOU also includes The Toppin Walker Scholarship open to students reading for an Accounting Special and sees refurbishment of benches with the Deloitte brand dotted across the campus for students’ use.” Ikins Clarke , Managing Partner and Talent Leader for Deloitte Barbados, expressed his enthusiasm about the possibilities of the initiative: “I am personally delighted to be associated with this initiative, being a graduate of this esteemed institution. Deloitte takes its corporate social responsibility seriously, and we are therefore extremely proud to be able to positively impact the lives of our future leaders and captains of industry.” The MOU covers the period 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. l
A ccounting students are set to receive financial and professional support from one of the leading international audit firms, under a new agreement signed with The UWI, Cave Hill Campus. Cave Hill and Deloitte & Touche (Barbados) Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Deloitte’s office in August last year to undertake development programmes under Deloitte’s World Class initiative, the company’s social responsibility programme. The three main areas covered by the agreement are the enhancement of workforce readiness and soft skills of UWI students, the creation of a BDS$5,000 scholarship to incentivise outstanding students, and increasing Deloitte’s brand presence on the campus. The Deloitte Excellence Award – The Toppin Walker Scholarship is a one-year award named in honour of two of its founding partners Patrick Toppin and Gordon Walker and will be open to nationals of Barbados who are new students in the Accounting (Special) Programme.
(from left) Principal of Cave Hill Campus Prof. Clive Landis and Managing Partner and Talent Leader of Deloitte & Touche (Barbados) Ikins Clarke seal agreement.
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